英女王將加薪 八一八王室成員薪水大綱
The Queen is in line for a 6.5% payrise and could net a cool ￡45.6 million from the taxpayer next year if the way she is funded stays the same.
英國女王可能將加薪6.5%。如果撥款方案不變，明年她將從納稅人手中獲得4560萬英鎊。
Figures released show a total profit of ￡304.1 million for the Crown Estate.
公佈的數據顯示，英國皇家財產局的總利潤爲3億410萬英鎊。
If the Queen receives her Sovereign Grant calculated at the customary 15% of that she would be handed ￡45.6 million from the Treasury in April 2017, an increase of ￡2.8 million up from ￡42.8 million this year.
皇家財產局利潤的15%通常作爲君王撥款。若以此計算，2017年4月，女王將從財政部獲得4560萬英鎊，比今年的4280萬英鎊高出280萬英鎊。
However, the formula for the Sovereign Grant is being reviewed this year by The Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Keeper of the Privy Purse who will potentially change the way it is calculated to less than 15% of Crown Estate profits.
但今年，君王撥款的方案正交由首相、財政大臣和王室司庫負責人重新審議，計算方式可能被改變，撥款將少於皇家財產局利潤的15%。
This could mean her payrise is smaller, but she will still be in line for a bumper sum as rules state she cannot get less than any previous year.
這或許意味着女王加薪的幅度會減小，但因爲“女王的收入不得低於以往任何一年”的規定，其總收入依然將非常豐厚。
But a source said about the negotiations lately in light of Brexit turmoil: “This is hardly the moment where we are going to finalise a review of the Sovereign Grant.”
然而鑑於英國退歐的混亂局勢，有消息透露了日前的磋商情況：“當前不是我們敲定君王撥款的時候。”
News of the potential payrise came as Keeper of the Privy Purse Sir Alan Reid revealed how the royals have spent the ￡40.1 million they were given in April 2015 - amounting to 62p per person per year in Britain.
王室在2015年4月獲得4010萬英鎊，相當於英國國民爲此每年人均付出62便士。女王可能加薪一事傳來的同時，王室司庫負責人艾倫•裏德爵士透露了這筆收入的花銷情況。
He also stressed they have added to this by raising ￡13.9 million of their own money including through renovating and renting out apartments.
爵士還強調，王室除此收入外，還有1390萬英鎊的私人收入，包括整修和出租房屋的所得。
Last year it was reported they were renting one in St James’s Palace thought to bring in nearly ￡250,000 per year.
報道稱，王室去年出租了聖詹姆斯宮的一套房子，據認爲帶來了近25萬英鎊的年收入。
Prince Charles also revealed that his income from the Duchy of Cornwall estate rose to more than ￡20 million for the first time to ￡20.467 million up from ￡19.845 million the previous year.
查爾斯王子也透露，他從康沃爾公爵領地獲得的收入從前一年的1984.5萬英鎊上升到2046.7萬英鎊，首次超過了2000萬英鎊。
Expenditure on the area of his accounts that funds Prince William, Kate and Harry was also up 9.5% from ￡2.965 million to ￡3.249 million, although officials would not say how much of the increase was down to the three young royals or itemise how that money was spent.
查爾斯王子賬戶上用於威廉夫婦和哈里王子的支出也從296.5萬英鎊上升到324.9萬英鎊，上漲9.5%。不過官方不會說明上漲的支出有多少是因爲這三位年輕的王室成員，也不會詳細列明錢是怎麼花出去的。
The bill for royal travel was down to ￡4 million from ￡5.1 million the previous year, but there were still some eye-watering travel costs billed to the taxpayer including a ￡94,409 charter plane for Prince Charles and Camilla’s tour of the Balkans in March.
王室旅行開支從前一年的510萬英鎊降至400萬，但納稅人依然要承擔一些鉅額旅行開銷，比如查爾斯王子和卡米拉三月訪問巴爾幹半島時所花的9萬4409英鎊包機費。
